The coldest place I've ever skied was in Whistler during a chill at the end of 2021. It dropped to about -22C and was definitely the coldest I've ever experienced. I know it's not that cold compared to others but it's colder than anything we had ever experienced in Ireland 😂
OK, the winner of the Action 3 Combo has been decided by a random comment picker. It goes to Big Turns. Thanks to all of you for participating and leaving comments below. You guys have definitely been to some cold places! Once temps go below -18°C I find skiing definitely becomes a lot less fun, especially without sun and in the wind. So nice work for you all still making it out there anyways and shredding hard!
The coldest place I ever skied was Whiteface Mountain in upstate NY in 1981. Got to minus -20 degrees Fahrenheit in the evening. As a kid my mouth went dry because i was so fascinated by how your spit would freeze before it hit the ground.
Those drone shots were dope! How did you get them? Were you permitted by the resort or just kept it on the low down? Didn't even sound like it was making noise.?
Endlich wieder ein Video!! :) It's been far too long. The coldest conditions were skiing with my ex despite the lovely bluebird I was chasing. blabla pun intended. Great video as always. More to come hopefully.
The coldest place for me was Le Massif on Québec City. -35C. We did 6 run in 1 day and spent most of it in the chalet. The worst was the gondola ride to the summit that felt like being stuck in a deep freezer. Great video!
Really nice video, I love whistler. Coldest place I've ever skiied was here in Québec. I skied by -35C, it was terribly cold. Did a few runs and went home early
The coldest place I skied was Mont Saint Anne, Quebec night skiing in early January 35 years ago. Will never forget! No one was out there except for me and my buddy. I think we made it an hour after we could not feel our feet and hands. There were warmings on the announcement board, but back then you were on your own! Love the videos!
Switzerland, Andermatt, Gemsstock. Altitude: 2961 meter. Temperature in the sun: -28°. Only the exit of the station is in the sun, the rest of the mountain is a typical north face. So i'd guess, something around -33 to -36° is a reasonable assumption. And one thing i didn't really understand, maybe you'd get that clear for me. Your skis, are they the right lenght or maybe too long? 😅
Whistler was the ski resort which clubbed to death 200 unwanted Alaskan Husky dogsled dogs after the Winter Olympics when there was no longer need for them to haul around tourists. They could have given the trained sled dogs to indigenous native Indian tribes people but didn’t. So don’t visit the appalling ski resort.
The coldest I've ever skied were in Åre, Sweden. It hit a -32 C, crazy cold to ski in but a really fun experience. It was super crisp and had a little hole on the left side of the google, it was burning like hell after a few minutes. Went to ride a snow scooter after, when we drove fast it was -63 on the scooter, my thumb almost fell off, crazy but fun! The DJI looks awesome btw, GoPro really has a new competitor! Would be awesome to win one to be able to film everything with! :D
Damn, shitty weather... was there last year, not cold at all... Coldest was in Jackson Hole 2018/19 New Year, ski goggles froze on the inside constantly which was a pain. Hey, nice oysters 🤮😂
Coldest place was Zugspitze this year at around -18°C I think, my phone died from the cold and only turned back on when we were in the car, my energy drink was a slushy by 1pm and the sight was absolute garbage, we were in a big fat cloud all day long. I could barely see from one pole to the next to not run off the track - which I did once and then had to shovel myself out of 1,5m snow. Luckily the runs there are easy, they don't even have a black, as you probably know. Check the weather forecast, friends!
Man you post far too few videos... The coldest I ever skied in? Must have been -14 degrees celsius on Gerlitzen like two years ago, BUT with the wind gusting it for sure felt like -28! Beautiful sunshine that day tho.
-26 in Ischgl about 5 years ago. Supposedly colder next day, so apre ski started after breakfast... Home before 20.00 with a 50€ fine on the night stand. Good times 🤪
The coldest place I have skied was up and down Mont Blanc with some other like minded idiots. I am not sure exactly how cold it was when we set off at 01:30 in the morning but it was at least -20C. 2 guys got hypothermia and 2 got mild frostbite.
There is only one winner here and it is Saanen, just outside Gstaad. Went there several times for ski races with my daughter and every single time I froze my ass off. Temps were only -16 or -17 but at the bottom of the race slope, standing in ski boots, waiting for 120 kids to finish racing, with no shelter, I can guarantee hypothermia was a proper concern. Had to go back to the car a few times as my hands had turned into blocks of wood, my feet into lumps of concrete.
The coldest place i´ve skied was Saalbach-Hinterklemm. It was - 26 degrees celsius and i also borrow a friend my jacked cause he was drunk af. We went from one ski hut to the next to get down the mountain.
Coldest place was on the Columbia Icefields near Lake Louise doing a backcountry day hike in December…beautiful views but it was so cold that the car keys couldn’t unlock the door so we had to thaw the locks before we could leave
The coldest place I’ve skied is whistler because it’s my home resort coldest day I can remember is probably -25. Would love to win the camera so I can make videos skiing these runs
The coldest place I've ever skied was Australia... About around zero to-1 but with a snowfall that soaked you to the bones and super high wind that chilled all that humidity. No way to get warm even when you went in.
Skied at SundayRiver Maine in -27°f. Also stupid enough to go to the heated outdoor pool that night. Needed to have a beer bottle in each hand, one full of beer to drink, and one empty to keep filling with hot pool water and constantly pouring on my head to keep from freezing.
The coldest place I've ever skiied at was Kühtai. I don't remember the exact year but I remember that it was -19°C. It was pretty cold but manageable. I've struggled more on other "warmer" days with a constant cold wind
Those are some gnarly double blacks compared to what we ski here at Loveland, Colorado. That said, our peak chair tops out at almost 13,000 ft (with our parking lot at almost 11,000!) I'm not sure which is colder, Loveland chair 9 in wind, or -20F (real temp) night skiing in the Midwest.
The coldest place I've skied is only -19C at Lech this year in January (new to the sport and love it!). Stayed with one of the people in the avalanche on Christmas Day in an off-piste ski school.
I skinned up towards Mt Rohr on the Duffy Lake Road one cold weekend. We stopped in the forest about 3/4 of the way to the lake when the other two guys' skins fell off. We dug out a snow cave and camped out in -35deg C. In the morning, as we awakened, shivering, we each related that we had been having similar hot activity dreams (wink wink). After a quick hot drink, we hightailed it back down through the forest to the car and true warmth
Hey buddy loving the content and Austrian humour over in North America! Coldest skiing I’ve experienced was Sugarloaf, ME back in college days when we were eager beavers and decided to drive up the hour from Waterville when it was -25F and high winds making it -50 or so with wind chill. Needless to say a few friends had pre frostbite on cheeks after bombing a few ice skating runs down from the peak. Second place was driving 38 hrs straight from Mass to Jackson Hole to make it for millennium New Years in 2000. Rolled up 5hrs before New Years and passed out missing New Years! left boots in the car and woke up to -10 F and went out any how in frozen boots. At least they were stiff, probably 160 rating being solid ice hehe!
Coldest place I've skied is Mount Aragats in Armenia. I was around - 25 degrees but with a wind of around 65-70 km/h and snowing it felt like - 40 degrees. My jacket frozen on me.
The coldest place I ever skied was in Sheregesh in Siberia. It was in january, all ski lifts were closed, so we had to ski tour up the slopes. It was about -37 degrees Celsius but hopefully no wind at all. Great experience.
Coldest place I've skiied is Japan. Seki Onsen it was -18.5C and chucking snow down all day. Every run we would stop in the club house half way to warm up again. Very entertaining video here. Thanks.
The coldest I skied was in Ylläs, Finland. It was -30C with winds up to 16m/s. None of the lifts above treeline were open so I had to climb to a nearby fell (Kellostapuli).
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Coldest I've skied was actually at Whistler, -26 celcius! Terrible day haha. Everything was iced over and it felt like my brain was freezing anytime I picked up speed.
Probably -25 off the Midi....But the coldest feeling was in Contamines in the rain. It was the first day of that season and the stoke was high enough to make skiing in the rain seem like a good idea. Emptying water out of my boots whilst waiting for the bus home was...fun :)
On February 4 of this year I skied at -36 Celsius with my family in Jay Peak, Vermont. Due to high winds the lifts were closed so we had to hike up. The snow was like sand so we gave up after a couple runs from midway up the mountain.
The coldest I’ve skied in was definitely Whistler around Christmas last year. We had temps around -35 and wind chill all the way to -56 in the alpine!! Had to stop every couple Holundern meters to make sure no one got any frostbite on their nose. Absolutely freezing.
Coldest temperature or what felt the coldest? The latter is the dumbest: ski hall in Landgraaf (Netherlands). After a day in there you just get cold to the bones.
thank you for the great video! The coldest I've ever skied was in Kosovo with minus 20 degrees! That what as an experience! Thank you and keep coming up with the great videos! :)
sweet insight into a mountain ive skied but not enough! coldest day was probably at whistler i recall a -20C or so day with windchill so nothing like the -40C of a couple weeks ago up there but still cold!
The coldest i remember must have been in Stubai at like -25 ish C a couple of years ago. actually was not too bad when you were on the move since there was so little wind. even tho we ended up going for some beers instead after a couple of runs haha.
The coldest place I ever skied was in Fiesch in the Swiss alps it was about -18 degrees Celsius. Temperature wasn’t that bad, the wind and ice-snow was :)
Coldest - 46C with wind chill, at Whistler earlier this season, they closed some of the lifts due to the cold. After two runs we had to run inside to warm up.
About -25C effective wind chill, I think! Are you using FOV Wide or Ultra-Wide for these helmet shots? And would you recommend filming vertically for social media, or should I film horizontally with 4:3 and then crop in post? But then it'll max out at 60 FPS.
I used linear for selfie talking head and ultra wide for skiing. Definitely vertically. When you use the cage that comes with it you can easily switch from vertical to horizontal or vice versa as you can clip in in two spots.
Love the video, always wanted to see the comparison of the US vs EU slope ratings from an EU skiier. The coldest conditions I have skiied in, was about -20°C on Podkoren/Kranjska Gora some 10 years ago.
@@elaboratelymcc9038 Sadly haven't had a chance to ski in the US myself, but from what I have seen EU resorts are mainly focused on groomed runs, while in the US there is a lot more runs that are not groomed but still count as a run in the resort. A very important part in that plays the average yearly snowfall. Most of the resorts in the EU only get about 2-3m (80-120") of yearly snowfall only the best located resorts get more than 4m (160") of snow, but there are also a lot of resorts that get less than 2m or 80 inches of natural snow, which means that most of the resorts use snow canons to make artificial snow, which is very harsh and icy to ski on most of the time. Therefore I think it is very hard to make a fair comparison to make sure we are not comparing apples and oranges. I think that the main difference would be, that because of that focus on groomed runs in Europe, we usually have runs that are steeper with more difficult conditions like having black ice on the whole run or very variable snow conditions (from black ice, to very soft snow and crud and everything in between), that claim is based on what I experienced in almost every resort I went skiing in the EU (France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, sadly no Switzerland). In general a run to qualify as black at least some part has to have the inclination gradient of more than 40% (22°) usually they are closer to 50-60% and one of extreme example would be the Kitzbuhel Streif, which has 82% gradient (aka 40°). And I think the main reason for that is, the type of terrain that the Alps offer is so much different, a lot more jagged/cliff like and avalanche safety/danger is a lot more present because of that. So to provide for safe skiing they just decided to set routes that they can control and clear regularly. For example, the slope I mentioned above and the one I have the most experience with (Podkoren, Kranjska Gora) which is part of the FIS skiing competition calendar, has a max inclination profile of 59% and a minimum of 21% with most of the run being in the 40-45%. And most of the year it is black ice, because they usually organise ski competitions and training sessions so it needs to be well prepared. Because I have been skiing on conditions like for most of my life, I find it easy to ski and love to to high intensity 50+MPH runs, but by no means it is a simple run to ski on, even with lots of experience, you have to take it seriously and keep pushing throughout the entire run, due to the icy conditions. And almost every resort I know of, has at least one black run like that, maybe a bit mellower on average, but it has at least something like a 200m segment of 40% or more. I for sure would find a Colbert's Couloir run difficult having never skied a feature like that, but having some backcountry skiing experience everything after the entrance would be ok. Most of the groomed Black Diamond and Double Black Diamond runs I have seen, seem more like a red in EU but again have not skied in the US and due to the GoPro effect it is very difficult to judge how steep it actually is. But there are difficult black runs in the US too, for example, the Aspen Downhill course has max grade of 55% and a minimum of 12% and an average being 30%.
@@nejcmirtic529 Ah okay thanks. Based on your descriptions I think the blacks in the US are easier than in the EU but the harder double blacks in the US are more comparable to back country in europe and harder than european blacks
